Meet Our Team
Karin Silbernagel, PT, ATC, PhD

Karin Silbernagel, PT, ATC, PhD

Director, Center for Human Research Coordination

Email: kgs@udel.edu
Phone: (302) 831-4808
Address: 540 South College Avenue

Karin is a professor and associate chair of the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of Delaware and founding director of the Center for Human Research Coordination. As CHRC’s director, she is responsible for all aspects of its operation. Professor Silbernagel received her bachelor’s degree in physical therapy (1990) from Boston University, advanced M.Sc. in physical therapy (2001) and Ph.D. in orthopaedics (2006) from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She has been a physical therapist for 30+ years and has ongoing funded research in orthopaedics and musculoskeletal injury with a focus on the lower extremity.

Marlo Goss

Marlo Goss

Assistant Director

Email: mgoss@udel.edu
Phone: (302) 831-3184
Address: 540 South College Avenue

Marlo is responsible for CHCR’s financial monitoring and management, human resources, overseeing all administrative functions. Marlo also supports recruitment and registry development and is the point of contact for the center, managing daily operations. Marlo has been with UD since 2009. She previously worked in corporate administration as well as in various small businesses. She is also CITI certified for both Good Clinical Practice and Human Subjects Protections — the certificates are available upon request.

Martha Callahan

Martha Callahan

Research Manager

Email: mcall@udel.edu
Phone: (302) 831-6202
Address: 540 South College Avenue

Martha is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations and workflow for the research studies that CHRC supports. She assists researchers with budgeting for study coordination in their grant proposals. Martha also develops and maintains individual research studies and registry databases, policies and procedures strictly following human subject guidelines. Martha is the point of contact for researchers at UD, helping them navigate human subject coordination and compliance. Martha has worked at UD for over 20 years with many years of experience with human subjects. She is also CITI certified for both Good Clinical Practice and Human Subjects Protections — the certificates are available upon request.

Jennifer Marmon

Jennifer Marmon

Research Coordinator

Email: jmarmon@udel.edu
Phone: (302) 831-4615
Address: 540 South College Avenue

Jennifer is part of the research coordination team. This team is responsible for research subject logistics including screening, scheduling, transportation/monitoring, and payments to participants volunteering in numerous studies and registries. This team assists in the recruitment for registries and is responsible for the retention of research subjects for individual studies/registries. The team assists researchers in reporting data for progress reports for human subject data. Jennifer coordinates individual studies including a large clinical trial. Jennifer is one of our recruiters actively out in the community representing UD Research and helping recruit participants into the research studies needing volunteers to conduct their research. Jenn has been a team member with us since 2013 when she began work at UD. She is also CITI certified for both Good Clinical Practice and Human Subjects Protections — the certificates are available upon request.

Jane Diehl

Jane Diehl

Research Coordinator

Email: diehlj@udel.edu
Phone: (302) 831-4616
Address: 540 South College Avenue

Jane is part of the research coordination team. This team is responsible for research subject logistics including screening, scheduling, transportation/monitoring, and payments to participants volunteering in numerous studies and registries. This team assists in the recruitment for registries and is responsible for the retention of research subjects for individual studies/registries. The team assists researchers in reporting data for progress reports for human subject data. Jane coordinates individual studies including a large clinical trial. Jane is one of our recruiters actively out in the community representing UD Research and helping recruit participants into the research studies needing volunteers to conduct their research. Jane joined our team in 2016. She worked in various patient care positions. She is also CITI certified for both Good Clinical Practice and Human Subjects Protections — the certificates are available upon request.

Alicia Adkins

Alicia Adkins

Research Coordinator

Email: aiadkins@udel.edu
Phone: (302) 831-0150
Address: 540 South College Avenue

Alicia is part of the research coordination team. This team is responsible for research subject logistics including screening, scheduling, transportation/monitoring, and payments to participants volunteering in numerous studies and registries. This team assists in the recruitment for registries and is responsible for the retention of research subjects for individual studies/registries. The team assists researchers in reporting data for progress reports for human subject data. Alicia manages the CHRC website. Alicia joined us in 2016 and has been the sole coordinator for a multisite clinical trial. She previously worked in a large physician practice bringing vast knowledge on navigating best practices in securing medical clearances for many researchers. She is also CITI certified for both Good Clinical Practice and Human Subjects Protections — the certificates are available upon request.

Kia Huffman

Kia Huffman

Data Systems Analyst

Email: kia@udel.edu
Phone: 302-831-3509
Address: 540 South College Avenue

Kia Kia is responsible for administrating the servers and databases that host University of Delaware’s REDCap instance. Kia is the REDCap administrator for UD. Kia builds REDCap projects for research teams as well as manages and maintains UD’s REDCap instance. Before joining the University of Delaware in 2022, Kia was working as a cyberinfrastructure architect at Brown University. Kia’s passion is working with researchers to design and develop data management tools and workflows tailored to their needs. She is also CITI certified for both Good Clinical Practice and Human Subjects Protections — the certificates are available upon request.

Vacant

Vacant

Data Systems Analyst

Email:
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Address: 540 South College Avenue